"When it comes to our health, there are essentially four things under our control: the decision not to smoke, a commitment to exercise, the quality of our diet, and our level of optimism. And optimism is at least as beneficial as the others."

-- Martin Seligman

#Commitment Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Optimism Quotes

“What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?”
“Design is too important to be left to designers.”

Source : "Innovation X: Why a Company's Toughest Problems Are Its Greatest Advantage". Book by Adam Richardson, p. 184, February 8, 2010.
“It wasn't government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn't government that gave us the yearly and lifetime caps on insurance coverage that have sent so many people into bankruptcy when they've faced a serious illness or accident... It wasn't government that gave us a system in which the gap between what we spend and what we get is so enormous. It was the free market.”

Source : "The health care reality conservatives ignore" by Paul Waldman, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2013.
“People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.”
“You can't trust very many people.”
“People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.”
“I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.”
“Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.”

Source : Antonio Tabucchi (1989). “Little Misunderstandings of No Importance”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

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